Remember position in playlist?

[ministryofsillywalks]

Before I go off trying to figure this out in my own I thought I'd ask if someone already implemented this.

My kids like to listen to audiobooks on Spotify. Longer books are often split up into separate albums with several tracks.
I made playlists out of these but now I would love to save the position where they stopped last time.

My first thought was to get the track number in the playlist and save this in some helper and then when the playlist is called again start from the track number stored in the helper.

Has someone implemented something similar or has any better ideas?

Or is a feature like this coming with Audiobook and podcast support soonish and I shouldn't bother building some janky fix? ;)

[ministryofsillywalks]

Just found
https://github.com/orgs/music-assistant/discussions/3050
Looks like starting at a certain track in a playlist/album isn't doable via automation?

[OzGav]

It is too early to speculate on what functionality might be available when the audiobook/podcast support is added but saving where you are up to isn't an out there idea. You will just need to be patient as we aren't seeing any significant dev assistance that can kick this along.

[ministryofsillywalks]

No worries.
But did I interpret the other discussion correctly, that I currently can't use a service to start a playlist at position X ?

[OzGav]

Correct

[ministryofsillywalks]

Not feasible at the moment